Four random chords forming a quadrilateral
Question
Mark points on a circle and draw every chord joining two of them. Now choose of these chords uniformly at random. What is the probability that the chosen chords are exactly the four sides of a convex quadrilateral?
Short answer
. There are chords, hence equally likely choices. Each set of points determines exactly one convex quadrilateral, giving good choices, and .
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
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